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Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh has rejected the result of the presidential election held earlier this month, a week after admitting defeat. Mr Jammeh cited "abnormalities"...

After two failed bids, Nana Akufo-Addo has managed to clinch Ghana's presidency. He had long been seen as an aloof elitist, but now many...

Anti-government demonstrators block a road in Bamenda, Cameroon. Photo Credit: Reuters Police in Cameroon shot dead four anti-government demonstrators in one of the Central African nation's...

Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir. Photo Credit: Reuters  International Criminal Court judges asked South Africa on Thursday to send representatives to a hearing next year to...

Almost 200,000 Kenyan households, many headed by poor, rural women, have lifted themselves out of poverty using mobile money services, experts said on Thursday,...

As many as 3.5 million people in Africa were uprooted from their homes in 2015 due to conflict and natural disasters and left stranded...

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye. Photo Credit: Reuters  South Korean lawmakers on Friday voted overwhelmingly to impeach President Park Geun-hye over an influence-peddling scandal, setting...

Ghanaian presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP). Photo Credit: Reuters Local media outlets in Ghana's capital Accra have projected that...

Ghanaian presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo (L) of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) talks next to his wife Rebecca after casting his vote at...

Refugees stand outside their tent at the Ifo Extension refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border in Garissa County, Kenya October 19, 2011....